No Display - unable to determine if it is booting

My Z71v was working great and then one day it stopped having display. I played with in for a minute or two and then turned it off. A little while later it came back up and booted with display. It was powered off yesterday and has not successfully came up yet. I tried hooking up a monitor, but it did not display anything. I have tried swapping the Memory, removing the DVD Drive, and the battery to no avail. I was also unable to see it from the DHCP Clients table at my router; but I am not too quick to trust it as it displays the wrong IP address for the machine I am on now. I could not ping anything other than my machine though from the router. I am concered that the board or some component is bad. I am not sure where to start if I need to begin purchasing known good components and hope it is not the board as I fear (they seem pretty pricey on my first search). I hope you can provide some insight. Thanks for having this page.

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Before you go to drastic measures and since the TV section is fine I would check to see if the Xbox display format is set compatible with your source input. In another words make sure the resolution is set correctly or at least play around with that setting for the xbox input on the display. Just like the same thing on a computer screen if the refresh rate is set too low or the resolution is not set correctly the display will give you problems. Flat panels these days are nothing more than digital display panels being fed with TV or other signals. Therefore there are some common terms with that of a computer display.You might also try a different input on the TV as that input may have a different setting on the display.

You need to determin if the display is defective or the video card.
Connect a know working display to your PC and if you are able to view the display, your video card is fine and the display must be defective.
Try connecting the display to another PC and see if it works, if not your display is defective.
I hope this helps.
Good luck and have a great day.

This is the solution from dell website :"Connect your computer to an electrical outlet to charge the battery. If the problem persists, call Dell for technical assistance". if laptop have warrenty then take it to DELL. if no warrenty, if you know how to open laptop , just replace the CMOS battery. or take out the CMOS battery for minute or two, and put it back. try both methods. if problem persists take it to DELL. best of luck..

I believe it's actually a firmware issue with the SIR-KEN1. I havethe same setup and have the same exact problem. I have to cycle thru my "SRC" button and get back to Sirius for it to work. Not a happy camper. I read on the Sirius Backstage forums about the firmware, although I have written Directed Electronics (SIR-KEN1 manufacturer) and never received a response.